I do not recommend going here for instrument rentals, or for anything really. Unfortunately, we had…read morea very bad experience our first time here. We would love to support local when we can, but we will not be returning here. We were given an instrument that seemed one size too small and sounded like a toy compared to our previous rental instrument from Meyer music. Even my 4 year old said , "eeeeeew" after trying it out for the first time. We rented for one day , called to ask about the returning it and the worker on the phone initially said we could go in and get refunded, but then called back and said we would still be responsible for the charge. He seemed like he didn't know what he was talking about because he kept recommending that we go in and try out the other instruments and said they had a variety to choose from, but we were clearly told the previous day that there was only ONE instrument in stock in the size we needed. Upon returning the instrument the next day, the customer service guy shrugged it off and said "you had the chance to try it," after showing them the picture of their instrument compared to another. The rental instrument was for a very young kid who wouldn't have questioned it. My child's instructors were surprised at the size difference, and mentioned they would recommend continue renting either at Meyer music in Grand Rapids, or even Shar music. We were unable to have a successful lesson with no proper instrument so we left our lesson and went to return the instrument directly. It's been super hard to reach out to the manager at the store. The workers there seem to be untrained and when we when to return the instrument, he took it and said we were all set without even entering anything in the system or getting our name. When asked to get a receipt, he asked for name and proceeded to type something, we ended up with a receipt of our original rental $21.xx, and the receipt also mentioned next billing cycle starts next month, nothing about ending the rental agreement, or instrument being returned. In the photo: left is the actual size we are in, right is the rental. The shoulder rest that we had wouldn't even stay on the violin... it just kept slipping off.....something is clearly not right, and they are not willing to make things right or even admit that a mistake was made. Lesson learned! We hope our experience will help save you the trouble that we experienced.

The staff are always friendly and knowledgeable. I appreciate that the teachers are known,…read moretop-notch performers in the area. The location is convenient as well!

I am not in the market for buying instruments, but lately, I've been selling. I had 2 old…read moresaxophones that I took in to Marshall Music for a price estimate. They did the estimates and told me what I could do to sell them. I am real happy about the money I got for those, much more than I paid and they both also needed pad work done. This is all I've had done there, since I'm not into buying right now, but I am getting ready to sell one of my 4 guitars. I have 2 Fender Stratocasters, an Avarez acoustical, and the one I'm selling, a hollow body guild. It's worth about what I thought, but I now have their written statement on it's worth. This is a service that I could not find elsewhere, so kudos to them.

Will be joining Circuit City, et al, in retail oblivion soon. Don't shop here. Ignorant staff…read more Pathetic inventory. Cheap knockoffs favored over REAL merchandise. Prices are almost all list. "Special order" means "someday...whenever...maybe..."

First time seeing BenJammin and Analisa this weekend at Old Dog Brewery, it was an absolute blast!…read more Any parent can attest that finding fun things to do on the weekend with your kids can be both challenging, expensive and monotonous but with BenJammin your kid can have a great time with other kids and you can enjoy a delicious Bloody Mary, with no cover; in my opinion it's the best of both worlds. The performance was not only entertaining but educational and would be a great fit for birthdays, daycares, churches, community events, etc! We'll definitely be back to old dog to hear Ben jammin frequently!

Great music! We try and see them as often as possible with our three toddlers at Old Dog Tavern…read more Also have experience as a teacher with them at elementary schools. Friendly, upbeat, and great with kids.

My experience with this store was excellent. They went way above and beyond their duty as employees…read moreto help me and did everything they could to straighten out what the online people did which it did stem from online it costed me over eight hours of work really five or six and I am a tattoo artist and I make $250 and the online service act like it wasn't a big deal. I counting the three hour round-trip trip but these people in Kalamazoo Michigan I recommend you see them. I recommend that you talk with them because they are professional at their job. I give them 100% I will see them many times in the future where I will never call online again and I hope they took my representative because I filed a complaint against him. He called back all apologetic and tried to make it right with me, but all he did was changing the order and overnighted to me and was supposed to give me a lousy $20 refund and it has not been put upon my card and has not been put anywhere anywhere so I guess they're just gonna keep that $20 too. I say they owe me a lot more. I asked for some extra guitar pics just to see what they would say and I was refused so this order was way more because of the discounts they gave me and the original bill was like $60 more than what the stuff they sent me next day air. We will see you tomorrow when I receive it and then I'm gonna write another review because I filed a complaint against the man that did it he was specifically told certain things and he specifically did what he wanted to do. I recommend going to the Kalamazoo store. They are very good people, especially the manager named Jake. He was the one and his crew was the one that were there for me. I gave them all five stars.

They did not let me play stairway to Heaven because supposedly it is banned and I got kicked out of…read moreguitar center! A random guy came up to me and yelled hamburger too!

This store is amazing. I wrote a report on the one in Kalamazoo, but it's portage Michigan, which…read moreis next-door to Kalamazoo. I give them five stars. They went away in above their duty to a customer. They spent over 2 1/2 maybe three hours trying to accommodate my service that I needed from their store Jake I don't know the other fellow names, but you were the main man that stood and did all the you could do you even know you even put my lost card in the safe because I was so frustrated and aggravated that I forgot it on your counter if you need any kind of musical guitars or anything amps accessories this store will accommodate you and they will do it with professionalism and friendly kindly attitudes I give them five stars and 100% of my business I will always go back to that store and I will never order online again that's where you get messed over and they don't keep their word. We'll see you in the morning at online service finally got it right but as far as the Guitar Center and portage Michigan on W. Ridge Rd. 100% five stars I wish I could give them more yours truly Eddie Mings.

Finally got a chance to make it to a lesson with the girls. We didn't know much at at, true…read morebeginners, who didn't even know what a chord was. That was until the awesomeness known as Adam, I'll call him Adam driver. Sat down with us and gave us the 411 on the anatomy of a guitar. There we were not even ten minutes in and already working on strumming, plucking, and multitasking. It was a very interesting class indeed, as our instructor played melodies from hit songs, and showed us how to imitate them. We left we not only basic knowledge of the guitar, but a passion to learn more, and hopefully one day. Play on our own, our with a group, but with our own guitars. The class was a good amount of time which surprised us. We thought we were gonna be there for less than ten minutes. But it was over half an hour and we got to play as long as we wanted after we were done. Talk about awesome!